Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 87
The church was beautifully decorated and on the pulpit was the restored Hawaiian flag.
What happens: decorate, restore, be · To what, where: church, restored Hawaiian flag, pulpit
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 church | det |
| 2 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 decorated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 decorated | aux:pass |
| 4 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 5 decorated | advmod |
| 5 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flag | cc |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 pulpit | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pulpit | det |
| 9 | pulpit | pulpit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flag | obl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 flag | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flag | det |
| 12 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 flag | amod |
| 13 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 flag | compound |
| 14 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 decorated | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 decorated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decorate | past · passive | the church | beautifully property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | restore | participle | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | the restored Hawaiian flag | the pulpit | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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